topic Re: Delete all SME views Script cause scene crash in 3ds Max Programming Forum

Delete all SME views Script cause scene crash

calberto.cart — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 02:16:57 GMT

Hi there, a couple of days I tried an script from this Post

There, one of the Scripts really worked for me in Max 2024, but theres an issue with scenes with more than 10 View tabs, the script clean all the viewtabs but then the scene crashes.

But if I run the script directly from Maxscript, sometimes works ok, at least in some scenes, meanwhile saving the script in file or macro produces the scene to crash, its really weird.

Im attaching 2 sample scenes in Max 21 and the Script mentioned.

Also a video example

Re: Delete all SME views Script cause scene crash

denisT.MaxDoctor — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 01:30:25 GMT

I don't have MAX 2024 to play... could you please convert the scenes to 2023?

Re: Delete all SME views Script cause scene crash

calberto.cart — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 02:17:49 GMT

Ouch sorry, I totally forgot, I have already reupload the zip file with max files in 21 version

Re: Delete all SME views Script cause scene crash

denisT.MaxDoctor — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 03:45:14 GMT

I can't reproduce the problem of crashing while deleting sme views, working with the files you attached.

Perhaps someone else can find the situation where the scene crashes.

I use the code below to delete all views:

( if sme.GetMainframe() == undefined do sme.Open() num = sme.GetNumViews() while sme.GetNumViews() do sme.DeleteView 1 false num )

The code deletes all views as expected. No warnings, no errors, no crash...

Re: Delete all SME views Script cause scene crash

calberto.cart — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 15:26:21 GMT

Thanks, that didnt work for me 😓

I have tried in Max 2021 and 2024 and the error occurs everytime

Re: Delete all SME views Script cause scene crash

denisT.MaxDoctor — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 19:20:22 GMT

Send the error message you get

Re: Delete all SME views Script cause scene crash

MehdiZangenehBar — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 01:35:48 GMT

This happen for me sometimes, You should keep at-least one view to prevent the crash.

Re: Delete all SME views Script cause scene crash

denisT.MaxDoctor — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 06:59:45 GMT

@MehdiZangenehBar wrote:
This happen for me sometimes, You should keep at-least one view to prevent the crash.

Interesting find... sometimes it makes sense.

In any case, I'd be interested to understand the exact cause of the crash.

Re: Delete all SME views Script cause scene crash

MehdiZangenehBar — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 10:52:14 GMT

Yea, and if I need to clear ALL, I will add the default view first, then delete the rest.

Re: Delete all SME views Script cause scene crash

denisT.MaxDoctor — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 11:19:53 GMT

Could you make a minimal sample file where we could reproduce the crash?

Re: Delete all SME views Script cause scene crash

MehdiZangenehBar — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 13:56:41 GMT

Rarely happen, I will get back to this topic as soon as I got that again.

Re: Delete all SME views Script cause scene crash

calberto.cart — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 14:56:13 GMT

for me this is only happening in some cases, curiously only when im having more than 10 view tabs, I need to do more tests, at least in the samples that I upload its always crashing, 1 of them cleans, left 1 tab and then crash

Re: Delete all SME views Script cause scene crash

calberto.cart — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 23:39:37 GMT

Ok after some time, this issue is solved for me, the problem was from V-Ray, they have updated version 6 and 7 in the nightlies, now I can clean the SME when there are more than 10 tabs.